We are happy to announce that 2.2.1 beta of MariaDB MaxScale,the next generation database proxy for MariaDB is now available. Beta is an important time in our release and we encourage you todownload this release today!

The goal of this MariaDB MaxScale release is self-healing automation, hardened database security, preparing for new capabilities for the upcoming MariaDB Server 10.3 release, while at the same time, making it easier to manage.

MariaDB Server states are persisted, so in the case of a crash and a restart of MaxScale, it has the correct server state, quicker.

Monitor scripts are executed synchronously, so they can safely perform actions that change the server states.

Prepared statements are now parsed and the execution of read only ones will be routed to slaves.

KILL CONNECTION can now be used through MaxScale.

The release notes for MariaDB MaxScale 2.2.1 can be found here and the list of bugs fixed can be found in the release notes. Binaries for MaxScale 2.2.1 Beta are available for download here. MaxScale documentation can be found in the Knowledge Base. In case you want to build the binaries yourself, the source can be found on GitHub, tagged with maxscale-2.2.1.

We are very excited about this release and look forward to hearing from our users about their feedback and experiences. If you have any questions or feedback, please email me dipti.joshi@mariadb.com or reach out through our community group.